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November 7, 2009 in City
Threat won’t lead to Mead expulsion
Student’s joke triggered school lockdown; charge also may be dialed back
Expulsion and a felony charge are no longer imminent for the Mead High School student who jokingly threatened to kill a teacher last week.
The 16-year-old will be allowed back into the district in January, and the Spokane County prosecutor’s office is recommending a reduced charge of gross misdemeanor, officials said Friday.
“When I reviewed the case, it felt that a more appropriate charge was threat of bodily harm,” said Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Bill Reeves. No official charging decision has been made, though.
The incident occurred Oct. 28. The boy entered a classroom with his hands extended …
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ChefGus on November 07 at 5:44 a.m.
Well….. this certainly makes all of us with children in the Mead High School feel very safe….. the youth's history IS germaine but that is best used in sentencing if he is convicted … not in deciding to press charges and take him to court. J
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Meadparent on November 09 at 5:24 p.m.
This teacher's hysterical, racist, overblown reaction has given this poor kid a record.
If this student had been white there would have been no lockdown.
She should be ashamed of herself and the school should be investigating her handling of the situation.
Anyone who has spent time with teenage boys should understand their immature humor. All she saw was his skin color. Disgraceful.
Mead High School is huge. Do they even have one faculty member of color?
Perhaps if some of the teachers interacted with peers of color they would not be so frightened of students of color.
I said before and I will say it again, look at how the students are reacting. The majority of the students speaking out are speaking out in favor of this student.
These students are not sociopaths who find death threats amusing. They know the studnet involved and they knwo the teacher involved. And they have reached a conclusion. Maybe the adults in our community should take time to think about what they have to say.
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